Carradale Hotel
In the center of downtown is the Carradale Hotel, a luxury hotel with nine uniquely decorated suites. The hotel boasts six doubles and three twin rooms with each room boasting a view across the garden toward the Isle of Arran. There is room service, wake-up calls and laundry facilities. Breakfast and lunch is available in the dining room, and the adjacent Carradale Restaurant offers dining in a candlelit, wood-paneled room. Enjoy locally caught seafood including langoustines, scallops, turbot, hake and monkfish. If you're looking for something heavier, try Argyll lamb, Carradale wild venison and other local game. After dinner, relax with a single malt beverage in the hotel's expansive lounge, basking in the heat of the wood-burning fireplace, playing on the beautiful marble chessboard or reading one of the hotel's many books.
The Carradale Hotel is also adjacent the Carradale Golf Club, a 9-hole, par-36 course that opened in 1906. Located on the east coast of the Kintyre Peninsula with panoramic views across the Kilbrannan Sound, the Carradale Golf Club is a family-friendly golf facility with changing tables and golf trolleys available. As of January 2010, residents of the Carradale Hotel received a 20 percent discount to the golf club.
Carradale Hotel
Airds
Carradale East, Campbeltown, Argyll, PA28 6RY, United Kingdom
015834 31223
carradalehotel.com
Dunvalanree Hotel
Also in the heart of Carradale, the Dunvalanree Hotel is a nine-room bed and breakfast that has rooms named after important places in the life of the married couple who owns the hotel, Alan and Alyson. For example, the Kintail is named after the hometown of Alyson's parents, and the Bunessen is a king-size room named after the place where Alan first asked Alyson to dance. Each room has binoculars for sightseeing from the balconies and a guest folder detailing things to do during a visit at Dunvalanree. There is a restaurant on site and complimentary wired and wireless high-speed Internet. The hotel was the recipient of the four-star award by the Scottish Tourist Board and the Silver Award in the Scottish Tourist Board's 2007 "Foodie Awards."
The Dunvalanree Hotel is also within walking distance of the Carradale Golf Club and an hour's drive from the Machrie Bay Golf Course on the adjacent island of Arran. Machrie Bay is a 9-hole, 2,278-yard course that is played twice over for a par of 66. The course is characterized by flat fairways, no water hazards except for the boundaries and few roughs bordering the greens.
Dunvalanree Hotel
Port Righ
Carradale East, Campbeltown, Argyll, PA28 6SE, United Kingdom
015834 31226
dunvalanree.com
Argyll Arms Hotel
Just 10 miles south of Carradale is the larger city of Campbeltown, which boasts the Argyll Arms Hotel. Each room in the hotel is different in size and furnishings. The common rooms are fitted with Victorian decor, and guest rooms are more modern, each with access to high-speed, wireless Internet.
Of the half dozen golf courses in Campbeltown, none is larger than the Machrihanish Golf Club. The facility's two courses are set in the dunes in the small village of Machrihanish on the western side of the Kintyre Peninsula. The first, an 18-hole, par-70 course, stretches for more than 6,400 yards from the longest of the four tees. The second, a 9-hole, par-68 course, goes for nearly 2,400 yards two times over.
Argyll Arms Hotel
60 Main St.
Campbeltown, PA28 6AB, United Kingdom
01586 553 431
argyllarmshotel.co.uk
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